Daijiworld Media Network

New Delhi, Jul 15: Pawan Sahni (46) has been arrested outside a hospital here for duping kidney patients on pretext of arranging organ donors.

Pawan used to cheat rich patients by taking a huge sum of money in advance promising to arrange donors for them.

The arrest was made following a complaint from a businessman stating that the accused failed to arrange a kidney donor even after taking Rs 4 lac for the same. Pawan had also claimed that he could make arrangements for getting the transplant done at a reputed hospital for Rs 10 lac and even got him "tested'' at a diagnostic centre in Chandigarh.  Other sources also alleged that he had taken Rs 50,000 from four other patients.

DCP (crime) Ashok Chand said that Pawan was unemployed and was also addicted to gambling and alcohol. He added that Pawan had donated his kidney in 2002, and later became a middleman for kidney racketeers in 2004.

Pawan was earlier arrested in 2004 when it was found that he was trying to pass off beggars and drug addicts as blood relatives of kidney patients by using forged documents.

According to crime branch sources, the accused was also under the scanner of Gurgaon police in 2007-08 for suspected involvement in a kidney racket, run by Dr Amit Kumar.

After coming out of jail in 2004, he along with his associate John hatched a plan to cheat people who are in need of kidney transplant. However, John is said to be on the run.

Two doctors of a private hospital are also under police scanner. Police are yet to question them.